It’s snowing, so #noseetranso on @octranspo.com line 1 this morning.

Have you ever wondered where chalk streams really come from? 💧 Beneath our feet sits a chalk aquifer - a huge natural sponge made of porous chalk rock. Rain slowly soaks into it, gets filtered and stored, and seeps back out through springs to feed our chalk streams 🏞🐟

In St Michael’s Churchyard, Madeley, lie the six children of Rev. T. H. A. Gwyther. He was vicar in the 1850s. Of the six children, five were to die within nine short days of each other. Newspapers report him preaching to local children to help them navigate their grief. I hope it helped him too.💚

It’s Hamish’s 5th birthday today …he and his step-brother, Cavall should be in charge.

The Old Windmill, Madeley. The building dates from at least 1827. Though ruined, it is such a powerful place, with a real sense of its own past. It is said to be visited by wandering spirits. To walk this way is to walk amongst ghosts, its just some are closer than others. 👻 #History #Folklore

Today the biggest challenge for writers is the new bakery across the road with its odd new pastries. Almond croissants flavoured with tonka bean extract and a kiss you'll regret later. Lemon tarts filled with a buried memory. Tarte tatin baked with rare black apples that only grow in graveyards.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Had a great meet-up with a friend at @fortnumandmason.bsky.social - wine bar meet, chat and drink (and more drink) then a cocktail before wobbling home very happy with the day. Cheers F&M (great staff), @archaeoborders.bsky.social and especially fellow escapee @bobdowling.bsky.social

#NowPlaying Arcadia-Missing I will go out on a limb and say (Probably) my all time favourite LeBon Rhodes composition I shamelessly adore it It holds an extremely deep & special meaning to me & is etched on my heart & brings me & my late best friend together across the spiritual planes #MusicSky

@captainmanic.bsky.social - thanks to @jimallthetime.bsky.social and his interview and post (best follow his podcast 👍), @archaeoborders.bsky.social - archaeologist in residence (& like me - a trustee) for the Offas Dyke Association, writes for the ODA newsletter and the Offa’s Dyke Collabratory

How much do we in Shropshire know or understand about Offa’s Dyke? Or about the nature of the border between us and our neighbours to the west? I explore the dyke with archaeologists Mel and Ian in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast open.substack.com/pub/jimallth...

For my TTRPG crews.

The Moon holds a rich symbolism and mythology cross culturally, and this is no different in Shropshire. You can read all about Moon folklore by following the link below. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-... #Moon #Folklore #Folktales #Witches #Folkcustoms

What’s this about bees? @goblinegg.bsky.social wrote about bees. I love bees and can understand (even with a scientific mind) how they are respected.

The first Folklore Podcast of the year is live! THE FOLKLORE OF PROVERBS written and presented by me, with music from Amy Hopwood. Watch the visually enhanced version on YouTube at youtu.be/Rn6R_FnqV-Y Normal audio version on your podcast app, or at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-185....

I absolutely love researching and talking about Witchcraft so I'm very excited for this one! Ann Morgan's story has been a massive part of my life 🦇

Maps speak—not with words, but with form, color, and proportion. Like a poem, design becomes its meter and metaphor. Both the poet and the cartographer face a paradox: how to compress infinite complexity into a finite frame. buff.ly/vke2Wsu

What’s that … Air Force One won’t even carry him in case he comes back with a country or BST (Bright Shiny Thing) again. #UnearnedIncome Great find @joncooper-us.bsky.social Having said that, “Great British” heritage aptly described by @jamesacastor.bsky.social youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY?...

Shropshire folklore includes bees - “Coorus Craiturs”! Read Amy’s blog post and find out more. #Folklore #History #Beelore #Folkbrliefs #Beeliefs

H-Air Force One didn’t have an electrical fault, it had an enthusiastic virus checker which went off as the orange-topped animatronic approached. That and he was being accompanied by Major Fuccup and Corporal Punishment not to mention the over-exuberant Miss Demena.

Come to Worcester - Huntingdon Hall - we (@archaeoborders and I) love the show(s) and you would go down so well with Woo-Town weirdos 👍🤞🤔👏

Bookings are now open for the @cancic.bsky.social 2026 #archaeology fieldschools. 20-24 April at a #medieval manor site in Oxfordshire and 18-22 May at an early #Anglo-Saxon site in Northumberland. More details via cancic.com

Please listen to this exceptional segment from a speech by J.B. Pritzker. It explains everything that's happening now in #MAGAmerica.

Another 6.3 miles completed today, from Coalport to Bower Yard Lime Kiln (in Ironbridge) via the old railway line. The Lime kilns are some of the best preserved monuments to Shropshire's industrial heritage. Thank you for all of the kind words and support! X fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/27886

My debut folk horror audio drama is now available! Enter a world immersed in Shropshire Folklore, ruled by Devil Himself. There's something very strange afoot up the stiperstones! buzzsprout.com/411730/12499890 buzzsprout.com/411730/12600423

Beautiful and extremely difficult artefact to make. Try commissioning that today!

Equally, to those students who've recently spoken about encountering bullying at red brick institutions I'd advise simply asking members of a particular group of bullies how they came to be there. It's a legitimate question because there you are, from your state school, all caught up.

Moss holding down a slope. #GreatMeadows #LexingtonMA #Moss

What an amazing story

A Christmas gift from the Binfluencer Supreme: an intergalactic natter between me and @susiedentwords.bsky.social ! In a crowded field, it's my favourite pod episode yet - and I'm talking all podcasts in the universe. Join us here: podfollow.com/trash-talk-w... Merry Christmas! CB x

connect.open.ac.uk/fieldofdream... #FieldOfDreams Why is Freddie not an OBE, KBE, some kind of recognition for his working his way up fro “Northern routes” to be an all-rounder cricketer and all-rounder person. Homage #Freddieintoff.

Brilliant! ❤️

The boys are a couple of idiots given the chance 🙄🥹😂

My research into Nanny Morgan has been one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done. Ann Morgan's story highlights the importance of honouring historical legacies in folkloric narratives. She deserves to be remembered. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/nann... #Folklore #Witches

Thank you to @iwm21.bsky.social for this link. I have to confess I love a good graveyard. You can learn so much about peoples’ lives who didn’t make it into the history books, about attitudes to death and burial and headstones are wonderful microcosms of nature too

this looks cool. layer the earth with stories! https://pinthetale.co.uk/

hamishanddougal.wordpress.com The GWP and Vizsla They should run any country …”just be fun and have fun cos every day is fun”

Learn to use QGIS to create vector layers from historical maps with @jimclifford.bsky.social, Josh MacFadyen and @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social:

Archaeologists can use #fungifriends and #algaifriends to learn about a site’s life.

Bruised bolete 🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends #mycology #shroomsky #bolete

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@countbinface.bsky.social Love the podcast - everyone should love the podcast. Its real, it’s true, it’s all an Rnglishman may want in a polite-ician and you’re. It even from Earth! (Whatever that is nowadays?)

I develop my reconstructions using GIS and geospatial survey data. This is Brough Castle, Cumbria, in 1521, just before a devastating fire destroyed its eastern ranges. It was restored in the following century by the remarkable Lady Anne Clifford, www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histor...

Hello and thank you for your interest in my work. Check out my website and portfolio at bobmarshall.co.uk and at sai.org.uk/portfolio/bo.... I'm also on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bobmarsha...

Beautiful work - stunning image and she’s wearing glasses!

Absolutely gorgeous piece - stunning find of metalwork let alone a great idea! Could be an Etsy item

Copper-alloy disks with openwork decoration, known as Zierscheiben (ornamental disks), often placed inside ivory rings, were typical accessories for women in the 6th and 7th centuries in south-west Germany. These disks were suspended from a belt by a strap and...🧵1/3 🏺 #archaeology 📷 taken by me

Beautiful thing.

What a lovely man he was and he will be missed. Colin Renfrew is now his own archaeology.